This three book series contains complete citizenship test
preparation for anyone wanting to become a U.S. citizen, especially
those at the lowest reading level.

The Civics and Literacy book cover all the 100 questions in a
simple, easy-to- understand format while our Ready for the
Interview book is updated to reflect the new changes on the N-400
form and green card.

More about "Holding the Bag"

From July 5-July 21, 2017, I taught a combined ESL 2 and 3 class
at Milpitas Adult School. We took this opportunity to study
ESL/Citizenship and read "Holding the Bag," an ESL novel set in
Washington DC that had many opportunities to study for
the Citizenship interview. During our class, I posted daily audio
files, videos, and online Citizenship activities related to each
chapter of the book. After the class ended, we continued to post
EdPuzzles of the VOA Learning English Presidents videos to our
class website, MilpitasChat.com.

Since this three-week summer school class ended, I am proud to
announce that four students have since U.S. citizens--students who
would normally not qualify for Citizenship class because of their
low literacy level. Why did they pass? Because they had a goal: to
become a U.S. citizen. To achieve their goal, they
continuedto study Citizenship and practice speaking English a little
bit every day, inside and outside of the classroom.

Before we end the show, I would like to give you a heads up
about the upcoming congression budget which is centered around DACA
and US immigration policy.

DACA is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This is an
American immigration policy that allows some individuals who
entered the country as minors, to live, work, and go to school in
the United States with out fear of deportation.

Last September, the Trump administration tried to end the DACA
program. In January 2018, a federal judge said that USCIS must
continue to renew DACA applications. On Jan 19, the US government
shutdown for two days over a stalemate on DACA. At that time,
Congress voted to defer a decison about DACA for three weeks. The
deadline is coming up this week, on Feb 15. congress has still been
unable to make a decision about DACA.

Although a government shutdown does not affect USCIS citizenship
services, take this is your opportunity to make your voice heard.
Contact your federal representatives by phone or email via
Senate.gov
or House.gov.